Fall 12-Week No-Sugar Challenge 2009 (Page 5)

MASHIE36 - 2009-09-03 3:04 PM So far so good. I have a question: Lipton brisk ice tea unsweetened? The kind you get out of a convenient store soda fountain.

wgraves7582 - 2009-09-03 1:41 AM

That is where I am noticing it already in the composition.  The body is amazing if you feed it properly.

Last night we took the kiddos out for back to school dinner and I avoided pop, tootsie rolls, and ice cream.  Pretty proud of myself.  And to pay it off I was down 1 more pound this morning.  I hope the scale keeps being nice to me

Hope you guys have a great day and stay strong.

Oh and to help with me getting over my lunch pop I have been saving some grapes from my lunch bag and around 1:00pm I munch on those for some natural sugars   Working so far but it is only the 3rd day.  And we have a long weekend coming up with parties to attend and a fantasy football draft so it shall be interesting!

Rotorkim - 2009-09-03 7:51 AM Thanks for the info on alcohol, Karla! I was prepared to put on X on the board for last night's two-beer night at the local pub, something I don't do very often, but just happened to come up during these first few days of the challenge. But with beer and wine being OK, I don't need to add an X yet.

This challenge has been great! No soda for the past three days, and I've been avoiding my co-worker's stash of chocolate (I usually steal two or three pieces of dark chocolate every day). There's also a bin of little lemon cakes someone brought in on Monday. So I had one on Monday because I could, but not since. This weekend will be tough as we'll be visiting grandparents for a 96th birthday party (about 30 people invited, and grandpa loves to make pies and cakes). I'll have to hold off to the allowed ONE piece of birthday cake, but to avoid grandpa's pies -- well, I don't want to hurt his feelings. A piece of grandpa's pie might have to be the first X! Will let you know on Tuesday when we get back (no Internet access where they live in Northern Wisconsin, ya der hey!).

mekira - 2009-09-03 11:25 AM I understand about the rules and it's ok if I'm not eligible to the prize It's very much for health issues that I wanted to join and I wasn't sure if the cutoff was August 31 or September 1st. I'll do this 'unofficially' and it's fine with me. So I'll go post my starting weight (that I took on September 1st). Yesterday was my birthday so I definitly had cake lol (good way to start the challenge huh!) Tonight I'm going out for diner and it will be a challenge to try to avoid process sugar but I'll try. I'm glad we can have beer cause I'm having one tonight.... Patricia

MASHIE36 - 2009-09-03 4:04 PM So far so good. I have a question: Lipton brisk ice tea unsweetened? The kind you get out of a convenient store soda fountain.

wgraves7582 - 2009-09-04 7:35 AM

Wow - last night was brutal.  My brain was trying to convince me that a pop or candy bar would not kill me (which I agree with but still fought it off).  Our brains are so conditioned to our past habits - brutal.

So now I will not take my son for a slurpee (or just give him the money so I don't have to go inside).  Every where I turned there was glorious junk food

But I fought it off and have survived another day.

You guys have a great weekend and stay strong!  Enjoy Labor Day!

wgraves7582 - 2009-09-04 3:39 AM

Kelly (guess I should spell your name right ) - it is because of this challenge and only because of the challenge.  I don't care about winning I just want to stay strong.  It is all about breaking bad habits.  This weekend is going to be tough because here is our typical schedule:

Tonight - Fantasy Football Draft and my buddy's wife is a baker and chef extraordinaire!  This is going to be tough.

Saturday - football game (son) and then we go get a snack at 7-11 which always includes pop or a slurpee and junk food.  Habits

Sunday - Church brunch - baked goods all over and then usually Tim Hortons for a snack which always includes a chocolate dipped donut and a pop in there as well at some point - Habits

Monday - Labor Day - Birthday Party (good thing I don't like cake but the other treats are too tempting) - Habits

We just have to find a way to break the habits and we will all be good.  Hopefully my family sees it and starts to change their habits as well!

kcovert1 - 2009-09-04 8:22 PM I was just telling my husband tonight that this challenge seems to be easier this time around-tell me if you agree, Karla and Michelle.  I think a lot of it is that last time I really broke myself of a lot of bad habits (like you say, Bill), and this time it seems to be more about cutting back on splurges than having to deal with the everyday sugar addiction like I had before.  Definitely an encouraging thought to think I might very well be changing my habits (almost without realizing it)!!

carteroak - 2009-09-04 3:17 PM

I agree!  I definitely felt less "addicted" to sugar coming into this go-round.  The temptation is still there, but MUCH easier to resist.  I hope that I can make more progress on eliminating mindless munching (even if the munchies are healthy) and improving portion control.  When I am training a lot, I end up so hungry that lately I have been gaining instead of loosing weight - and its not all muscle, believe me!  So I need to get things headed in the right direction.

wgraves7582 - 2009-09-05 4:15 AM

Well as I had expect I made it a long time at the Fantasy Football Draft being good but then the desserts came out and so I used my mulligan last night - 1 dessert.

I put down that I used it in the logs and the date - do I do anything else?

Stay strong this weekend everyone!  Have a great holiday!

kcovert1 - 2009-09-05 11:24 AM

1st big temptation of this challenge:  Today I volunteered at a local tri (I was supposed to be racing, but my foot is currently injured).  They said they would have breakfast for the volunteers, so I ate a peach around 4:45 a.m. and then hit the road.  When I got to said breakfast there was coffee (good), donuts (a weakness for me), and huge blueberry muffins...and nothing else!!  I was so bummed (and hungry).  I took a good long look at the breakfast, and just walked away with my coffee.  Later I snagged a banana from the race food tent.

After the race, my husband (who did race), the kids and I went to a local burger joint where I had a big juicy burger...and a salad instead of fries!  I didn't even eat one from my hubby's plate!

VICTORIOUS!!!

Happychick

Speaking of calling my name (and fries) my hubby and I had lunch out yesterday and I had fries on my plate.  I told my hubby that they were all his and we even loaded my plate with catsup (I don't think he truly believed I would be able to resisit since I was actually eating off the same plate) but I will have you know....even with the catsup SCREAMING at me, I didn't touch the fries or the catsup (except to give my daughter one)

DEK1106 - 2009-09-05 9:42 PM For all of you ketchup fiends out there.  Try this.  I leave out the artificial sweetener(an obvious for this challenge).  There are a ton of homemade/sugar-free recipes out there but this is by far the simplest one that I've found.  

http://www.cdkitchen.com/recipes/recs/5/Low_Carb_Ketchup_II58336.shtml



"Somewhere, someone else is training now, and when he races you, he will beat you" 

gymgirlx - 2009-09-06 1:12 PM crash and burn.. worked the disneyland expo friday and staurday and had sportbeans/cliff bars for meals/snacks. Getting back on track now.